Over the last week or so, I have had the pleasure of receiving several emails of praise and appreciation from friends, family and strangers regarding things I’d doing here at NOH, in my organic bath & body company Newf Brand, and in other ventures as well. It is one of the most rewarding feelings in […]

One thing I use a lot of in this house is vanilla. Since I bake zucchini bread every week, that’s already a tablespoon per week…plus most of the cookies and other goodies I bake also use vanilla. Throw in French toast from time to time and other breakfast goodies and that’s even more vanilla. And […]

Hello world! Since I didn’t really know what to write about today (it’s been a quiet week), mom said maybe I could just share some photos of spring. I think she hopes it will serve as a reminder to the current weather that it is actually almost June and temps above 60°F really would be […]

Day after day, you read my ramblings about what goes on in front of the computer screen. But what you may not know is that there are a lot of things going on behind the computer screen as well. By that, I mean that I also experience many of the ups and downs that typical […]

We made these smoked ribs last year in our barrel smoker and they turned out SO good. We were so busy trying out other new recipes in our new smoker haze that I never got around to writing about them. So when we made them last weekend again, we knew it was love all over […]